Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

El Pardo

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Royal site and hunting ground

Enrique III had the first hunting lodge built in the middle of the El Pardo woodland in 1405, and Carlos I replaced it with a palace in 1547. Fernando VI walled the woodland in 1746 as a park of the royal household, and Carlos III renewed the palace almost entirely from 1772. The village, stretched along the Manzanares, was a municipality of its own until 1950, when Madrid annexed it.

What to see today

Palacio Real de El Pardo: Palace, 1547 to 1558
Basílica de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora (Iglesia de la Asunción): Church, 15th to 16th century

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